A trapped miner, named Jacob Vowell, wrote this letter in his notebook to his wife and mother to their 6 children before dying in the Fraterville Mine Disaster in Tennessee in 1902. Vowell’s 14-year-old son Elbert was also trapped within the mine beside him [851×1247]June 28, 2025
A painting of a couple making acrobatic love on a lake. India, 18th century CE, sold at Sotheby’s in 2017 [1040×1557]June 28, 2025
Viking sword discovered in Southern Norway (2017) in the best-preserved condition. [878×563]June 28, 2025
“Cats as the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō”, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japan, Edo period, 1850 [3829×1901]June 28, 2025
Bronze animals with silver and gold inlays. China, Warring States, 4th century BC [1000×1420]June 28, 2025
Two Persian Warriors, Palace of Darius I the Great, Suse. C. 500 BC. Glazed brick frieze in one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire, depicting warriors believed to be Persian Immortals, name given by Herodotus to an elite heavily-armed infantry queued unit of 10,000 soldiers… [1280×1023] [OC]June 28, 2025
Detail of the “Nymphs of the Seine” statue group by Georges Recipon, west side of the Alexandre III bridge, Paris, France. The most ornate bridge in the city, with its Art Nouveau lamps, cherubs and nymphs, it was built between 1896 and 1900 and was named after Tsar Alexander III [1920×1211] [OC]June 28, 2025
Wooden sculpture of Taishakuten (Indra) riding an elephant. Japanese National Treasure, To-ji temple, Kyoto, Heian period (dated 839 CE)[1284×1718]June 28, 2025
A silver tetradrachm from the ancient Greek city of Mende in modern-day Greece, 405-348 BCE. The coin depicts the head of Dionysos wearing a wreath of ivy on the obverse, and an ithyphallic ass with a crow on its rump pecking at its tail on the reverse [732×1420]June 28, 2025
Ancient or medieval ring I purchased with an engraving that looks like a pineapple [350×356]June 28, 2025
